Lau or LAU may refer to:
People
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Lau (surname)
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Liu
/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text ...
(劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
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Lau clan Lau (also spelled Lav) is one of the seven Mohyal Brahmin clans of Punjab.
Origin and history
Early history
In Mohyals' recorded history, however, there is no mention of the Lau clan until around 1000 CE. According to Mohyals' own historians and ...
, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
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LAU (musician)
Laura Fares, known as LAU or Lau Fares (born February 14, 1978, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer from Argentina, and currently based in Barcelona (Spain), after 21 years in the United Kingdom. She is also the ...
: Laura Fares
Places
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Lebanese American University, an America university in Lebanon
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Lau, Estonia
Lau is a village in Kehtna Parish, Rapla County in northern-central Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from ...
, a village in Estonia
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Lau, Gotland
Lau is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Lau District, established on 1January 2016. Originally an island, it is now part of the main Go ...
, a locality on Gotland, Sweden
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Lau, Nigeria
Lau is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Lau and the area is dominated by Hausa Fulani people. Lau Local government has a border with Ardo Kola, Jalingo, Yorro and Zing local governments of Tarab ...
, a local government area
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Lau (crater)
Lau Crater is an impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 74.4°S latitude and 107.8°W longitude. It is 104.9 km in diameter. It was named after Danish astronomer Hans E. Lau, and the name was approved in 1973 b ...
, a crater on Mars
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Lau Islands
The Lau Islands aka little Tonga (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty a ...
, Fiji
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Lau Province
Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji. Its capital is at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba. The province forms part of the country's Eastern Division (which also includes the provinces of Kadavu and Lomaiviti), and o ...
, Fiji
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Laurel station (Mississippi)
Laurel station is an Amtrak station at 230 North Maple Street in the heart of downtown Laurel, Mississippi. Currently served by Amtrak's passenger train, the station was originally built in 1913 by the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, which ...
, a passenger railway station in Laurel, United States
* LAU, IATA code for
Manda Airport
Manda Airport , also called Lamu Airport, is an airport in Kenya.
Location
Manda Airport is located on Manda Island in the Lamu Archipelago of Lamu County on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, on the Kenya coast.
Its location is approxim ...
, a public airport on Manda Island, Kenya
Languages
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Lau language of Nigeria
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Lauan language, also called Lau, spoken in Fiji, ISO 639-3: llx
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Lau language (Malaita), spoken in the Solomon Islands, ISO 639-3: llu
Other uses
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Lau Chan
The following is a list of characters from the ''Virtua Fighter'' fighting game series released by Sega. Starting with ''Virtua Fighter'', this series has spanned five games (not including updates) and has been released on arcade systems as well as ...
, fictional character in video game ''Virtua Fighter Series''
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Lau (band)
Lau is a British folk band from both Scotland and England, formed in 2005. Named after an Orcadian word meaning "natural light", the band is composed of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion, piano, electronics) and Aidan O'Rou ...
, a British folk music group
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Lambda Alpha Upsilon, a Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity
* Local administrative unit (see
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS (french: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard, adopted in 2003, ...
), a low level administrative division of a country, ranked below a province, region, or state
* Lẩu, Vietnamese
hot pot
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Lauinger Library, the main library at Georgetown University, which is commonly known as "Lau"
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Leeds Arts University
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Lau Taveuni Rotuma (Open Constituency, Fiji), a former electoral division
* LAU, a United States military designator for aerial
rocket launcher
A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.
History
The earliest rocket launchers documented in imperial China consisted of arrows modified by the attachment of a rocket motor to the shaft a few in ...
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See also
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Iau (disambiguation)
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